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Breandán Breathnach Collection. Reel-to-Reel 331 [sound recording] / [various performers]

  • BBR-18712/1/258888
  • Item
  • 1 August 1958 ; August 1964 ; 3 June 1963 ; 8 December 1967 ; 3 December 1963 ; August 1966 ; 9 August 1969 ; 5 November 1949 ; 4 October 1969
  • Part of Breandán Breathnach Collection

Performers:
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English A1–4, 9–11, 13, 17, 19, 21, B3, 15;
speech in Irish A25;
Clancy, Willie, Clare, pipes solo A1–4, B3–4, 8–10, 15–17, B3–4, 8–10, 15–19;
speech in English B15;
Rowsome, Leo, Dublin, pipes solo A5–8, 22–24, B5–7;
Breathnach, Breandan, Dublin, speech in English A9;
Doran, Felix, Wicklow / Manchester, speech in English A9–10, 17, 19;
pipes solo A9–11, 18, 20–21;
Ennis, Seamus, Dublin, speech in Irish and English A12–13, 15;
pipes solo A12, 14–16;
Moloney, Paddy, Dublin, pipes solo A26–27, B1;
Touhey, Patsy, Galway / New York, pipes solo B2;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in English B5, 7;
O'Loughlin, Peter, Clare, pipes solo B11–14;
Mac Donnchadha, Sean / 'ac Dhonncha, Sean / Johnny Joe Pheaitsin / McDonagh, Johnny, Galway, singing in Irish B20;
O hEanai, Seosamh / Einiu, Joe / Heaney, Joe, Galway, singing in Irish B21

Running Order:
1. Speech, Air: Untitled, The Rocks of Bawn [Stated to be a version of the melody of the song generally known by this title]
2. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information about the date of recording], The Old Bush
3. Speech, Reels: Untitled, The West Wind, Sean Reid's Fancy [Sean Reid's Favourite; Gilbert Clancy's]
4. Speech, Slip Jig: Untitled, An dTiocfaidh Tu sios go Luimneach / Kitty Come down to Limerick / The Munster Gimlet
5. Air: An Chuileann [The Coolin]
6. Reels: The Bag of Potatoes, Untitled [Dillon's Fancy], Untitled [The Moving Cloud], The Maid behind the Bar [Kiss the Maid behind the Barrel]
7. Airs: An Raibh Tu ag an gCarraig, The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track B6]
8. Reels: The Sligo Maid, The First House in Connacht
9. Speech, Speech, Reel: Untitled [Information that the performance that follows was recorded at a Fleadh Ceoil in Mullingar, Co Westmeath in 1963; further detail in documentation], Untitled, The Maid in the Cherry Tree
10. Speech, Reel: Untitled [How Felix Doran began playing the pipes; his family background in piping], Untitled [The Pigeon on the Gate]
11. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Untitled [The Newport Lass; The Newport Lasses; The Trip to Athlone], Garrett Barry's Jig
12. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Story about the scolaire bocht, the poor scholar], An Scolaire Bocht / The Scholar [The Poor Scholar]
13. Speech: Untitled [Topics: about Seamus Ennis's pipes; story about a headstrong woman]
14. Reel: The Woman of the House [The Mistress of the House]
15. Speech, Jig: Untitled, The Gold Ring
16. Air: Untitled (clipped at start) [Tiarna Mhaigh Eo / Lord Mayo; in a version deriving from Frank Cassidy, fiddle, Donegal]
17. Speech: Untitled [Topics: Felix Doran's new set of pipes, made by Leo Rowsome; how Irish traditional music is faring in Manchester]
18. Reel: The Mayo Lasses [Mistitled? George White's Favourite]
19. Speech: Untitled [Topics include: Felix Doran had just acquired a new set of pipes at the time of this recording; his first experience of learning the pipes, in 1932; his family background in piping; his father was a good player; his grandfather Cash; other piping members of his family; he travelled a lot in counties Galway and Clare, and played especially with musicians Paddy Fahy, Paddy Kelly, Willie Clancy and Joe Leary; how the chanter of his pipes got broken in a traffic accident in Laytown, Co Meath; buying his first set of pipes, a practice set, in 1932 in Capel St in Dublin]
20. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket]
21. Speech, Reel: Untitled, Toss the Feathers
22. Descriptive Piece: The Fox Chase
23. Reels: Untitled [Johnny When You Die], The Woman of the House
24. Reel: The Star of Munster, The Copperplate
25. Speech: Untitled [Stage announcement]
26. Hornpipe: Untitled [Pretty Maggie Morrissey]
27. Air: A Spailpin a Run [END OF BAND ONE]
28. Reel: Trim the Velvet
29. Reel: The Mountain Lark [The Steampacket], The Morning Star, Miss McLeod's Reel [Dubbing from a 78 rpm commercial disc]
30. Speech, Reel: Untitled, The Star of Munster
31. Jigs: The Frieze Breeches [Version of; I Buried My Wife and Danced on Top of Her], Old Tipperary
32. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Scholar, The Primrose Lass
33. Air, Jig: The Castle of Dromore [For a different performance of this piece by the same performer, see track A7], Untitled [Malowney's Wife]
34. Speech, Set Dance: Untitled [Radio announcement], Bonaparte's Retreat
35. Reels: The Copperplate, Rakish Paddy
36. Hornpipe: The Plains of Boyle
37. Jig: Garrett Barry's Jig
38. Set Dance: The Blackbird
39. Jigs: The Butcher's March, Down the Back Lane
40. Hornpipes: The Leitrim Fancy, Untitled [Byrne's]
41. Speech, Air, Reel: Untitled, Sliabh na mBan, Gilbert Clancy [Sean Reid's Favourite]
42. Speech, Jig: Untitled, Down the Back Lane
43. Jig: Paidin O Raifeartaigh
44. Air: The Trip We Took over the Mountains
45. Reel: The Connacht Heifer
46. Reels: The Old Bush, The Ravelled Hank of Yarn [Dub from a 78 rpm Gael-Linn commercial disc]
47. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail
48. Song: Ta na Paipeir Da Saighneail [Mistitled?] [END OF BAND TWO]

Finbar Boyle Collection. Cassette recording of Tom McHale et al. [sound recording] / Tom McHale ; Phil Murphy

Performers:
McHale, Tom, Roscommon, whistle in trio A1, 19, whistle in duet A1, 8, 13, 22, whistle solo A6-7, 10-12, whistle accompaniment A9, whistle in quartet A14-16, 18, 20-21;
Unidentified performer(s), fiddle in trio A1, 3, 17, 19, fiddle in duet A1, fiddle in quartet A14-16, 18, 20-21;
Murphy, Phil, harmonica A2;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A3;
Unidentified performer, accordion in trio A4;
Unidentified performer, fiddle in trio A4;
Unidentified performer, concertina solo A5, concertina in duet A5;
Unidentified performer, whistle in duet A5;
Unidentified performer, accordion in duet A8;
Unidentified performer, singing in English A9;
Unidentified performer, mandolin in quartet A14-16, 18, 20-21, mandolin in trio A17;
Unidentified performer(s), guitar in trio A1, 5, 17, 19, guitar in duet A1, 5, 13, 22, guitar in quartet A14-16, 18, 20-21;
Unidentified performer, piano in trio A3;
Unidentified performer, percussion in trio A4

Running Order:
1. Reels: extended medley of untitled reels
2. Reels: Untitled
3. Reels: Untitled
4. Hornpipe: Untitled [interesting version of the Japanese hornpipe]
5. Air: Untitled (unfinished) [END OF SIDE A]
6. Reel: Untitled (beginning clipped)
7. Reel: Untitled
8. Jig/Speech: Untitled
9. Song: Untitled
10. Air: Untitled
11. Medley: Untitled (unfinished)
12. Reels: Untitled
13. Air: Untitled
14. Reel: Untitled
15. Reel: Untitled
16. Reel: Untitled
17. Reels: Untitled
18. Reel: Untitled
19. Reels: Andy McGann's, Untitled (end clipped)
20. Reels: Untitled (beginning clipped)
21. Reel: Untitled
22. Air: Untitled [END OF SIDE B]

Hugh Shields Collection. Reel-to-Reel 151 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Recorded from Jack Devereux of Kilmore Quay in Keating's Farmhouse, Ballinconnigar, Co. Wexford, July 1967. [tracks 1–9, 49–55]
Recorded in Ballyconniger and Blackwater area, Co Wexford [in Keating’s farmhouse, Matt Curran’s house and elsewhere], July 1967. [tracks 10–48]

Performers:
Shields, Hugh, speech in English Tracks 1-4, 6-7, 11, 29-30, 35, 39, 41, 44, 48, 50-52, 54;
Devereux, Jack, (Kilmore Quay}, speech in English Tracks 1-6, 8, 50-52, 54, singing in English Tracks 1-5, 7-9, 49, 51-53, 55, recitation in English 6;
Sheil, Dick, Blackwater, speech in English Track 6, recitation in English Track 6, singing in English Tracks 19-20, 26;
Unidentified performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English Track 10;
Sinnott, Art, Boulavogue, singing in English Track 11, 13, 16, speech in English Track 11;
Dempsey, Jim, Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 18, 21-25;
Fitzgerald, Bridget, New Range, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 12, 14-15, 17, 36-37, 39, 41, 43, 45-48, speech in English, Tracks 39, 41, 48;
Unidentified performers, singing in English Track 27;
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 28;
Golden, Jack (Ballyesker, Blackwater), singing in English Track 29, 31-34, speech in English Tracks 29-30;
Curran, Matt, Blackwater, singing in English Tracks 25, 38, 42, speech in English Track 44
Unidentified female performer, singing in English Track 40

Running Order:
1. Talk about the following carol ; [Jerusalem, first carol for 12th day] (‘Jerusalem our happy home...’), speech ; song [titles of these carols supplied by Lisa Shields from Father Ranson’s article on the Kilmore carols] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
2. Talk about the following carol ; [Song for twelfth day] (‘Now to conclude our Christmas mirth...’), speech ; song] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
3. Talk about the Kilmore carols ; Bannow’s lonely shore (‘To Bannow’s lovely banks farewell...’) ; talk about the preceding, speech ; song ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
4. Patrick O’Donnell (‘My name is Pat O’Donnell, I belong to Donegal...’) ; talk about the preceding and following songs, song : speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
5. I traced her little footprints in the snow, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
6. Conversation on the ‘mumming’ traditions of Blackwater and Kilmore in Wexford with examples, speech Dick Sheil, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
7. My Mary of the curling hair, song] / Jack Devereux, singing in English
8. Who comes tapping to my window (‘Mary took the bloodstained dagger...’) talk about the preceding, song [one verse] ; speech] / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English
9. Ballyshannon lane (‘In ninety-six as the moon did fix her beams...’) / Jack Devereux, singing in English
10. Untitled [Welshman tricks Paddy into buying a ‘race-horse’s egg’], story [end of band one] / Unknown performer [Mr Delahunty?], speech in English
11. Boolavogue (‘At Boolavogue as the sun was setting ; talk about the preceding song / Art Sinott (Boulavogue), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
12. The river Sow (‘I’m an Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song [learned from her father] / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
13. I’m lonely in a foreign land, song [good air] Art Sinott, singing in English
14. She was a rich merchant’s daughter all in her prime of years (Canada-i-o), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
15. Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves along I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
16. The old bog road (‘My feet are here on Broadway...’), song / Art Sinott, singing in English
17. [The land where the green shamrock grows] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
18. Dearest love don’t you remember the day we first did meet, song / Jim Dempsey Ball Alley, Blackwater, singing in English
19. O land of love and beauty, to you our hearts are wed, song / [Dick Sheil, Blackwater], singing in English
20. The little shirt my mother made for me (‘I’ll never forget the night that I was born...’), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
21. Tootle um tootle um too (‘I’m a band in a terrible way...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
22. Love it’s pleasing (‘When I was young I was well beloved...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
23. The queen of Conamara (‘My boat she safely floats...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
24. Fare thee well false girl, I love you, song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
25. Norah Malone (‘For when you’ll be teasing when we should be pleasing...’), song / Jim Dempsey, singing in English
26. Erin’s lovely home ('When I was young and in my prime...'), song / [Dick Sheil], singing in English
27. [The boys from the County Armagh] (‘There’s one fair county in Ireland...’)song / unknown performers, singing in English
28. The Boston burglar (‘I was born and reared in Boston...’), song / unknown female performer, singing in English
29. Talk about singing, The drowning of Thomas Murphy (‘Oh you feeling-hearted Christians...’), speech ; song / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Golden (Ballyesker, Blackwater), speech in English, singing in English
30. Talk about the local mumming tradition, especially the role of the doctor, speech / Jack Golden, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
31. The Rathaspeck boys (‘Oh, you muses nine assist me...’), song [local, about drownings] / Jack Golden, singing in English
32. The nobleman’s wedding/ Another man’s wedding (‘Why should you lie on another man’s pillow?...’), song [one verse only] / Jack Golden, singing in English
33. Mary’s dream [= Mary weep no more for me (‘The moon had climbed the highest hill...’), song [ghost of drowned sailor visits his true love] / Jack Golden, singing in English
34. The faithful sailor boy (‘One dark and stormy night as the snow lay on the ground...’), song / Jack Golden, singing in English [end of band two]
35. Good old Wexford town [= Sweet Kingwilliamstown] (‘My bonny barque bounds light and free across the surging foam...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran (Blackwater), singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
36. Song: I’ve seen the mud cabin he’d dance his wilds jigs in (Teddy O’Neill), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald (New Range, Blackwater), singing in English
37. Song: Dan O’Hara ’Tis poor I am today for God gave and took away...’) / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
38. Song: [Ireland I love you, acushla mo chroí] (‘Far away O’er the sea there’s a little green island...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English,
39. Molly Lowry [= Molly Bawn] (‘A story a story I’ll tell you no lie...’) ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
40. Song:...’ [The shooting of President Kennedy] (‘In the town of Dallas, Texas, November ‘63...’) / unidentified female performer, singing in English
41. Who comes tapping to my window ; talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
42. Song: The old widow of Oulart Young maidens draw near, I crave your attention...’), song / Matt Curran, singing in English
43. Song: Noreen Bawn There’s a glen in old Tyrconnell...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
44. The Poulshone fishermen (‘On the 23rd of April in the year of sixty-three...’), talk about the preceding, song ; speech / Matt Curran, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
45. Song: Green bushes (‘As I went a-walking one evening in May...’), song song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
46. Song: [Eileen McMahon] (‘One night as I lay on my pillow a vision appeared in my view...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
47. Song: The river Sow (‘I am a Irish exile out on a foreign shore...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English
48. Song: Borris’s groves (‘Through Borris’s groves alone I strolled...’), song / Mrs Bridget Fitzgerald, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
49. Song: [On Christ’s nativity: 1st carol for Christmas morning] The darkest midnight in December...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English
50. Talk about the ‘Kilmore carols’ and the Kilmore choir / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
51. Talk about the following song ; [2nd carol for Christmas day] (‘Christmas day is come, let us prepare for mirth...’), speech / Jack Devereux, speech in English, singing in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
52. [3rd carol for Christmas day] (‘Ye sons of men with me rejoice...’) ; Talk about the preceding song and the Kilmore carol tradition, song ; speech / Jack Devereux, singing in English, speech in English ; Hugh Shields, speech in English
53. [Song for St. Stephen’s day] (‘This is St. Stephen’s day...’), song, / Jack Devereux, singing in English
54. Talk about the local dialect / Hugh Shields, speech in English ; Jack Devereux, speech in English
55. [Song for the Holy Innocents] (‘Hail ye flowers of martyrs, hail blossoms of heavenly spring...’), song / Jack Devereux, singing in English [end of session] [end of band three]

Josephine Keegan Collection. Reel-to-Reel 1 [sound recording] / [various performers]

Performers:
Unidentified performer, speech in English A1, B27;
O Murchu, Sean, Galway / Dublin, speech in Irish and English A2–3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21–23, 25, 27–29, 31, B1–2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18–20, 22, 24–25, C4–5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 33, 36;
Johnny Pickering Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group A2, 4, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, B33, 37;
Moriarty, Patrick, Kerry, mouth organ / harmonica solo A6, 12, 18;
Dermot O'Brien Ceili Band, The, Louth, instrumental group A22, 24;
O'Brien, Dermot, Louth, speech in English A25;
singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A26;
O Se, Sean, Cork, singing in Irish with instrumental accompaniment A27;
Ceoltoiri Chualann, Dublin, instrumental group A27;
Dempsey, Martin, Dublin, singing in English with instrumental accompaniment A28;
speech in English A29;
Maguire, Sean / McGuire, Sean, Belfast, fiddle in duet A30;
Unidentified performers, speech in English and Irish A32, B28, 31–32, 34, 36, 38, C1–3, 24;
McPeake Trio, The, Belfast, instrumental group A32–33;
Mac Mathuna, Ciaran, Limerick / Dublin, speech in English and Irish A32–33, B28–30, C24, 26–28, 30;
O Lochlainn, Colm, Dublin, speech in English A33;
Bunclody Ceili Band, The, Wexford, instrumental group B1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 17;
Egan, Cathleen, Tipperary, singing in English B7, 13;
Birmingham Comhaltas Ceili Band, The, Birmingham, instrumental group B19, 21, 23, 26;
Hipkiss, Michael, Birmingham singing in English B25;
Unidentified performer [McGann, Andy, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Unidentified performer [Redican, Larry, New York?], fiddle in trio B28, C24;
Concannon, Tom / O Coinceanainn, Tomas, Galway / Boston, speech in Irish B28;
Connolly, Mickey, Galway / Boston, speech in English B29;
Mellott, Tommy / O Mealoid, Tomas, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
speech in Irish B29;
O'Malley, Joe, Galway / Boston, accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Tonra, Brendan, Mayo / Boston, fiddle in instrumental group B28, 30;
Sturr [?], Frank, Boston, piano accordion in instrumental group B28, 30;
Kelly, Jimmy, Boston, banjo in instrumental group B28, 30;
Unidentified performer, fiddle solo B31;
McCusker Brothers Ceili Band, The, Armagh, instrumental group B35, 39;
Reynolds, William [Reynolds, Willie], Westmeath, pipes in duet C1–3;
Healion, Sean, Westmeath, fiddle in duet C1–3;
Malachy Doris Ceili Band, The, Tyrone, instrumental group C4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22;
Rowsome, Leon, Dublin, pipes solo C8, 14, 20;
Redican, Larry, New York, fiddle in duet C25;
speech in English C26;
McKenna, John, Leitrim / New York, flute in duet C26;
Morrison, Tom, Galway / New York, flute in duet C27;
Morrison, Jimmy / Morrison, James, Sligo / New York, fiddle in trio C27;
Coleman, Michael, Sligo / New York, fiddle in duet C29, 31;
Pride of Erin Ceili Band, The, instrumental group C32, 34–35

Running Order:
1. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message]
2. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Shane O'Neill's March (first part only)]
3. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; followed by test signal]
4. Reels: Untitled [The Green Mountain], Untitled, Untitled
5. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
6. Marches: Clare's Dragoons, Ninety-Eight [Who Fears to Speak of '98?]
7. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
8. Jigs: The Gold Ring, Father O'Carroll, The Irish Jig [Extraneous noise on this track]
9. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; the personnel of the Johnny Pickering Ceili Band]
10. Hornpipes: Tim the Turncoat [Mistitled?; The Friendly Visit], The Fiddler's Contest
11. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
12. Set Dance: Madame Bonaparte
13. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
14. Marches: The Milkmaid, Ireland Abu [The Ballydesmond]
15. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
16. Waltzes: The Blue Ribbon, The Listener
17. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
18. Jigs: Paddy's Return, The Chorus Jig [The Queen of the Rushes]
19. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
20. Reels: The Corner House, The Mountain Road [Composed by Michael Gorman], Untitled [Geoghegan's]
21. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of the 'Ceili House' radio programme that began in track 2]
22. Polka, Speech: Untitled [The Rakes of Mallow], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili Time' on Radio Eireann]
23. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
24. Reels: Untitled [Staten Island], Untitled
25. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Dermot O'Brien; topics include: the reasons why O'Brien stopped playing ceili music; strict tempo in ceili music; response to criticisms of his music as 'non-traditional'; Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann]
26. Song: The Merry Ploughboy / The Jolly Ploughboy
27. Speech, Song, Jig: Untitled [Radio interview], Untitled [Ta Mo Mhadra; "Ta mo mhadra, nil mo mhadra, ta mo mhadra scaoilte" (etc)], Untitled [The Maid of the Spinning Wheel / Cailleach an Tuirne; first part only; played between verses of the song performed in this track]
28. Speech, Song: Untitled [Radio announcement], Deep in Canadian Woods
29. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview with Martin Dempsey; topics include: the recent controversy about the teaching of Irish; Dempsey's career as a performer; the recent ballad boom]
30. Reels: Untitled [Lucy Campbell], Untitled (incomplete)
31. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
32. Speech, Hornpipe, Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a radio programme on Radio Eireann], Untitled [The Derry Hornpipe / The Londonderry Hornpipe], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
33. Speech, Air: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: Francie McPeake telling of Irish music evenings at the house of Francis Joseph Biggar in Belfast 60 years previously; interview with Colm O Lochlainn; topics include: Biggar's role as antiquarian and as sponsor of pipe bands all over Ireland; Biggar's role in starting the Black Black Raven Pipe Band in Lusk, Co. Dublin; after the banner of the Lusk band was destroyed by the Black and Tans, O Lochlainn replaced the banner; O Lochlainn met Roger Casement at one of Biggar's music evenings; Francie McPeake used to perform 'In Bodenstown Churchyard' in Biggar's house; O Lochlainn performed William Rooney's poem "Dear Dark Head" and was congratulated for it by Casement; O Lochlainn had lunch with Biggar and Casement in Dublin], Eamon an Chnoic
34. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of the radio programme 'Ceili House' on Radio Eireann], Untitled [Kelly, the Boy from Killane]
35. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
36. Reels: The Bunch of Keys, Rakish Paddy, The Copperplate
37. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: the buck dance – a virility dance performed in Clare]
38. Jigs: The Barber's Jig [Molloy's Favourite], Green's Jig [Malowney's Wife], The Idle Road
39. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
40. Song: The Cliffs of Dooneen
41. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
42. Set Dances: The Jockey to the Fair, The Three Sea Captains
43. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
44. Marches: Erin go Bragh, Ar Son Eireann, The Centenary March
45. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
46. Song: Noreen Bawn / Noirin Ban (incomplete)
47. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
48. Jigs: The Wandering Minstrel, O'Brien's Fancy [Katie's Fancy]
49. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Bunclody Ceili Band]
50. Reels: The Kilmaley Reel, The High Reel, Father Kelly's [Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track C14]
51. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; signalling the end of an edition of 'Ceili House']
52. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Red-Haired Lass]
53. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
54. Reels: Larry Redican's [The Culfada; composed by Larry Redican], Dick Sherlock's [Dicky Sherlock's], Lord McDonagh's [Geoghegan's], Untitled [The Ewe Reel]
55. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
56. Jigs: Untitled, Untitled [The First Night in America], Untitled [Andy McGann's]
57. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
58. Song, Speech: The Flower of Sweet Strabane (imcomplete), Untitled [Radio announcement]
59. Hornpipes: Anne Sheehy's Hornpipe [The Flowing Tide], Chief O'Neill's (incomplete; clipped at end) [END OF BAND ONE]
60. Speech: Untitled [Initial test message at start of tape band]
61. Reel, Speech, Speech, Reel, Speech, Reel: Untitled [McFadden's Favourite; signature tune signalling the start of an edition of the Radio Eireann programme 'American Journeywork'], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [Radio announcement; topic: this programme is coming from Tom Concannon's saloon in Norwood, near Boston, USA], Untitled [Down the Broom], Untitled [Radio interviews], Untitled [The Corner House]
62. Speech: Untitled [Radio interview]
63. Reels, Speech: Untitled [The Boys of Ballisodare / The Boys of Ballysadare], Untitled [Gregg's Pipes], Untitled [The Mason's Apron], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete)]
64. Reel, Speech: Untitled [Bonnie Kate], Untitled [Radio announcement (short; incomplete), signalling the end of a Radio Eireann programme, probably the 'American Journeywork' edition beginning on track B28]
65. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann programme of Irish dance music]
66. Reels: Dinny O'Brien's Reel [Composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Sally Gardens, St Anne's Reel / Saint Anne's Reel
67. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
68. Hornpipes: Untitled [The Tailor's Twist], Untitled
69. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
70. Jigs: Jackson's Morning Brush, Paddy on the Mountain [Delaney's Drummers], Kinnegad Slashers
71. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
72. Reels, Speech: Untitled [George White's Favourite], Untitled [The Bag of Potatoes / The Bag of Spuds], Untitled [The Silver Spear], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over, signalling the end of the radio programme beginning on track B32]
73. Speech, March: Untitled [Radio announcement signalling the start of a Radio Eireann radio programme], Sean O'Neill [Shane O'Neill's March]
74. Speech, Jigs: Untitled [Radio announcement], Whelan's, Bill Harte's
75. Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio announcement], The Donegal, The Leitrim [Rakish Paddy]
76. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the start of an edition of 'Ceili House'], Untitled [The Boys of the Lough]
77. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
78. Jigs: The Rakes of Kildare, The Fisherman's Widow [The Rambling Pitchfork], The Blackthorn Stick [The Humours of Bantry]
79. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: the use of a casadoir / twister in the making of ropes of hay or straw]
80. Air: Casadh an tSugain
81. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
82. Hornpipes: The Galway Hornpipe, The Golden Eagle, The Locomotive [Composed by James Hill of Tyneside]
83. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
84. Jigs: The Lilting Fisherman, The Humours of Ballycastle, I Will if I Can
85. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement; topics include: a tongue-twister in Irish]
86. Reels: Father Kelly's [Father Kelly's Reel; Rossmore Jetty; composed by Father Kelly; for another performance of this tune, see track B17], The Green Mountain, Whelan's Reel [The Hare's Foot]
87. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
88. Marches: Captain Dunne's, Slattery's Mounted Foot, The Merry Ploughboy
89. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
90. Waltzes: The Green Glens of Antrim, The Castle of Dromore, Lovely Leitrim
91. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
92. Jig: Gillan's Apples
93. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement: the personnel of the Malachy Doris Ceili Band]
94. Reels: The Morning Mist, Peter Street, The Plough and the Stars
95. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement, signalling the end of the edition of 'Ceili House' that began in track C4]
96. Reel, Speech, Speech: Untitled [McFadden's Favourite; signature tune signalling the start of an edition of the Radio Eireann programme 'American Journeywork'], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over], Untitled [Radio announcement, as voice-over]
97. Reels: Untitled [Father Kelly's], Untitled [Trim the Velvet]
98. Speech, Reel: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: Redican made 78rpm records with Eddie Meehan's Rosaleen Quartet; the personnel of the quartet; John McKenna], The Lady of the House
99. Speech, Reels, Speech, Reels: Untitled [Radio interview with Larry Redican; topics include: older musicians in New York, including Tom Morrison (flute), who used to wake Redican up at 2.30am to hear Redican play a tune], The Dunmore Lasses, The Manchester Reel, The Castlebar Traveller, Untitled [Radio interview, continued], Miss Langford's Reel, The Milestone at the Garden [The Humours of Westport]
100. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
101. Reels: Untitled [O'Rourke's], Untitled [The Wild Irishman]
102. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
103. Reels: The Liffey Banks, The Shaskeen
104. Reels: Untitled [The Crooked Road to Dublin], Untitled [The Ivy Leaf], Untitled [Ceol na Ceartan / Music of the Forge; The Pretty Girls of Mayo]
105. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement]
106. Jigs: Jim Fahy's Jig [The New House; composed by Paddy O'Brien], The Mooncoin (incomplete)
107. Reel: Untitled [A combination of the first part of 'Coen's Memories' (composed by Tommy Coen) with the second part of 'The Corner House'], Untitled, Untitled [The Reel of Bogie]
108. Speech: Untitled [Radio announcement] [END OF BAND TWO]

Maeve Gebruers and others [negative] / Glenn Cumiskey

Maeve Gebruers, seated
Catherine Doogan, seated
Lucy Doogan, seated
Margaret Cunningham, singing
Maeve Carolan, seated
Joan McDermott, seated

Creation Location:
Launch of `The Songs of Bess Cronin', White Room, Chief O'Neill's Hotel, Smithfield, Dublin 7

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